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Excerpt: Derek Haines Milo Moon
The Excerpt Reader is all for landing out a hand to fellow Twitter and Facebook followers and helping them out in this cruel literary world. Hélas, there comes a point in every blogger's life when...
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Excerpt: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Although he's been around for more than ten years now, (as a published writer that is), and as a celebrated one since 2004, the year he published Cloud Atlas, i've never read anything of David...
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Excerpt: Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett's literary debut was a short story collection entitled You are not a stranger here (2003).Considering this was a collection of stories which deals mostly with the 'mentally ill, closeted...
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Excerpt: DBC Pierre's Lights Out in Wonderland
I've read both of DBC Pierre's novel to date, first Vernon God Little, which won Pierre the 2003 Booker winner as well as the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award winner - a light and amusing read (not...
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Excerpt: Dave Eggers' What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak...
If pressed upon to tell The Truth and nothing but the Truth, The Excerpt Reader will avow, like most Western readers I guess, to a strong abstention from any non-western literature. That will include...
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Excerpt: Christopher Hitchens' Hitch-22, A Memoir
The English are famous drunks, or drinkers, if you prefer to use a euphemism.Many an English author have (and still do, I suspect) written whilst under the influence, and some have even boldly gone to...
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Excerpt: William Manchester's A World Lit Only Only by Fire
My first encounter with William Manchester's work had been purely coincidental: I'd stumbled upon a volume of his work, The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany...
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Excerpt: Haruki Murakami's 1Q84
First word of Haruki Murakami's magnum opus1Q84 (pronounced 'ichi kyū hachi yon' in Japanese) only came to me today, a year or so after its publication in Japanese.This might be partly due to the fact...
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Excerpt: Paul Kennedy's The Carpet King of Texas
TheExcerpt Readeroccasionally snoops outside its haughty literary realm of high-and-fine literature and lends a hand to a fellowTwitterorFacebookbuddy in need of a break, usually in the form of a quick...
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Excerpt: David Bellos' Romain Gary: A Tall Story
The Excerpt Reader is used to reading and reviewing well-to-do or much-spoken-of novelty-novels for its crowd of devotees, ocasionally lending out a hand to a Twitter or Facebook buddy in need of a...
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Excerpt: Philip Roth's The Humbling
Up till 2004, Philip Roth used to publish new novels at a pace of one every two to three years. Ever since The Plot Against America, though, he's been publishing a-novel-a-year, in a frenzy...
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Excerpt: Stéphanie Hochet's Combat de l’amour et de la faim
We live in an ever-growing multi-cultural world. Every country is a microcosmos of culture, comprising literature, music, culinary traditions, etc..Sure, this was always the case. Since the dawn of...
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Excerpt: Michel Houellebecq's La carte et le territoire
The Excerpt Reader has recently been doing more French than usual.. Not girls, fiction..First with an up-and-rising French novelist, Stephanie Hochet, now with the french writer and celebrity, the...
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What should the Excerpt Reader read??
Please help the Excerpt Reader decide what excerpt it should read and review next.Tell me which book should be next, or suggest a title of your own:David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. THE BIG ONE....
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Excerpt: Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey
On 'normal days', the Excerpt Reader consider itself a right expert in everything literary, especially when it comes to fiction..There are are a few cases, though, when the Excerpt chooses to stick to...
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Excerpt: Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd's True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World
Needless to say, the Excerpt Reader adores book excerpts.So it should come as no surprise at all if, upon a chance encounter with such an excerpt (and in his favorite non-literary magazine, of all...
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Excerpt: Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Excerpt Reader isn't BIG on women writers.Maybe because it is a he. This is not to imply any sexism (well, maybe some inherent sexism.. but that's not my fault, is it? Surely mankind can take the...
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Special Excerpt: Great Jewish Movies for the 'High Holidays'
The High Holiday season can arouse strange feelings in an 'ever-wondering' and often soul-searching soul.No matter the Age, Sex or Creed; No matter the orientation or Origin: Jew, Gentile, Hindu or...
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Excerpt: Brin Friesen's Sic. and The Domino Diaries
The Excerpt Reader met Brin Friesen par hasard, as the French say.. A chance encounter inFacebook set me mail-to-mail with this young and audacious writer.Friesen (self proclaimed 'a lumbering soul but...
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Excerpt: Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall
Live most of the people who ever read anything of Michael Cunningham's, the Excerpt Reader's read his Pulitzer-winning 4th novel, The Hours, back in 1999 and went to see the movie, directed by Stephen...
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